Born in 1970, Julia Quinn is an award winning American author. She began composing her first book just one month after completing her college. Her 24 novels for Avon books were acclaimed as the best seller by the New York Times. A graduate from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, she being one of just fifteen writers ever to be drafted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. In the year 2003, she was included into the Time Magazine, an achievement only a few writers have so far attained. In 2005, her novel “To Sir Phillip, With Love” was given a positive feedback by Publishers Weekly. They later named it as one of the six best mass business unique books of the year. Currently, she lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest.

About the series:-

The Smythe-Smith’s are familiar Quinn characters. The broadly horrendous Smythe-Smith musicales are a consistent setting in a considerable lot of Quinn’s other books. They showed up in greater part of the Bridgerton books. They are so common to the point that you start to anticipate them as recognizable companions. We are re-acquainted with Honoria Smyth-Smith in the first installment of the series.

Just like heaven (Smythe-Smith Quartet) – The First Installment of the Series: –

In the first installment, we are introduced with the character of Daniel, Honoria’s sibling who needs to escape England for the mainland after a disastrous duel, in which he shot and harmed the son of the Marquess of Ramsgate. Before escaping, he asks his dearest companion, Marcus, the Earl of Winstead, to take care of his sister. Both Marcus and Honoria have known one another for quite a long time and have cared for each other but neither of them has ever revealed it to the other.

Marcus thinks that he can’t succumb to Honoria when he ought to be keeping an eye out for her. However, Honoria thinks that Marcus doesn’t feel the same way as she does. Along these lines, Honoria sets out to get herself a spouse (a Bridgerton, no less). Instead, she, obviously, gets Marcus. Furthermore Marcus, obviously, understands that his affection for Honoria is more vital than his guarantee to Daniel (or, rather, that he can do both immediately).

The chemistry between the two leads is sublime. Readers will indeed love the delightful way Quinn catches the ponderousness of these two old companions. . It feels genuine and, at last, blissful.

A Night Like this (Smythe-Smith Quartet) – The Second One: –

One of the Smythe-Smith works that traverse with the Bridgertons, This book begins stating about Daniel’s exile. He dueled with his companion Hugh over bamboozling at cards. The entire thing, including the duel that leaves both Daniel and Hugh harmed, was all a huge drunken misconstruing. However Hugh’s father tells Daniel he accuses him and will see him dead. So Daniel ventures to every part of the mainland for a few years until one day Hugh comes and tells him it’s now safe for him to come back. Hugh has at last gotten his father to consent to allow Daniel to leave unbothered.

So Daniel comes back to London the day of the notorious Smythe-Smith musicale was occurring, the particular case that was held toward the end of Just like Heaven. There he came across Anne. Despite Anne being a governess, he simply realizes that he’s got to reach her. Anyway there are a great deal of things Daniel doesn’t have the foggiest idea.

A mystery revolves around Anne, her name not being that of Anne. She’s rethought herself as a governess, until Daniel comes and turns her reality on its head. He continually searches her out, he is continually searching for a reason to get only her, and she covertly cherishes it, however she needs to avoid him at all costs, in light of the fact that nothing can happen to an association with them. Then, there is another sub-plot going through that has Daniel accepts that Hugh’s father will never surrender his mission to see Daniel dead. It takes Daniel excessively long to make sense of what’s truly going on, and by then it might be too late. Any fanatics of the Bridgertons, Smythe-Smith books, or somebody who simply needs a beautiful sentiment will love this book.

The Sum of All Kisses (Smythe-Smith Quartet) – The Third Installment: –

From Julia Quinn, comes the third enticing portion of the Smythe-Smith Quartet, The Sum of All Kisses.

Hugh has never been forgiven by Sarah for the duel he battled three years prior, the particular case that constrained her cousin into exile, just about crushing her entire family. Anyhow regardless of the possibility that she could figure out how to pardon him, it wouldn’t make any difference. She couldn’t care about his leg which is short of what impeccable, it’s his identity she can’t tolerate. Be that as it may when the pair is compelled to use a week in close companionship, they find that initial introductions are not generally dependable. Furthermore when series of kisses begins the woman shockingly, end up being puzzled.

A splendid mathematician, a candid courageous woman, and Julia Quinn’s trademark funniness all met up to make a beguiling read. Notwithstanding their starting attentiveness (on his part) and aversion (on hers), Sarah and Hugh are an incredible match and it is indeed their chemistry that keeps “The Sum of All Kisses” above water, even through the shockingly moderate paced first 50% of the story.

The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy (Smythe-Smith Quartet) – The Last of the Series: –

Sir Richard Kenworthy has short of what a month to discover a spouse. He knows he can’t be excessively fussy, however when he came across Iris Smythe-Smith taking cover behind her cello at her family’s scandalous musicale, he supposes he may have found the right match. She has something very charming about her and Sir Richard immediately recognizes that she’s is the one he’s been looking

Iris Smythe–Smith is accustomed to being disparaged. She has a tendency to mix out of spotlight, and she enjoys it that way. So she is suspicious when Sir Richard asks her to introduce herself. Irrespective of all the flirting that Sir Richard does, she can’t exactly trust it’s all genuine. At the point when his proposal of marriage transforms into a compromising position that compels the issue, she can’t help suspecting that he’s concealing something . . . indeed as her heart lets her know to say yes.

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Bill Wenham is the author of various book series including The Inspector Charrington Mysteries and the Inspector Bruce Mysteries. He just started writing in his 80s to follow a life long dream. It’s an amazing story and the books he has written are pretty great too – his passion really shines through. Read more about Bills books.

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Greg Iles spent several years as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Frankly Scarlet. He quit the band after he was married and began working on his first novel, Spandau Phoenix, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess.